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Article: Green manure: grow something good for your soil. (Notes from the Northwoods).
- Article from:
- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
- Author:
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Do you yearly shovel your finally finished compost into a pile with enthusiasm, only to step back to behold a molehill instead of the mountain needed for your garden? Do you find yourself considering outrageous schemes on how to collect those cow pies from the neighbor's pastures, since you have no animals of your own? Do you have visions you'd rather not have when you hear the term "Green Manure?" Not to worry, help is on the way. And for once it doesn't cost much in time or money.
Green manure is simply any crop grown to be turned into, or cut down to lay on top of, the ...